On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:42:07 GMT
k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) wrote:
it addresses an issue that
some people may not know about, so maybe it would be good to
briefly explain further?
I agree, thanks. I changed the text to look like this:
By default, the Make rules should
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 10:07:31 +0900
Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org wrote:
MK halfcountp...@intergate.com writes:
If you say so, then I guess I am imagining things ;) I have never
given the issue much thought until now, I suppose I need to do a bit
more research on the issue.
Indeed, it's
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 17:44:10 +0100
Ralf Wildenhues ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de wrote:
Oh well. This thread has been so noisy and unproductive, maybe we
should seize the opportunity to take a bit of good away from it.
Karl, what do you think about this rewording (against the gnulib copy
of
and my packager at debian is now saying
they do not want strip used in makefiles.
How can I prevent -g from being used?
MK
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Ah, it's because of GNU make:
By default, the Make rules should compile and link with -g, so that
executable programs have debugging symbols. Users who don't mind being
helpless can strip the executables later if they wish.
Nice, flexible software it ain't.
This is an assbackward policy. The
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:36:34 -0500
MK halfcountp...@intergate.com wrote:
If and when you do need debugging symbols, it should be easy to opt
*for* them. Instead, I am left with the choice of leaving them in by
default, or having to use strip, making it impossible to add them.
Sorry
* contain debugging symbols. I suppose that might
mean having to maintain a slightly different package just for them; no
big deal, but still I think a poor compromise consequential of bad
policy.
MK
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of another, so this justifies it? Methinks the emperor wears
no clothes here.
MK
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are not available as binaries for every distro), I source
build.
Also, if you are using a small or offbeat linux distribution, there's
surely a lot of software that simply is not available for it in binary,
but that can easily be built from source.
MK
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On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:21:27 -0600 (CST)
Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote:
Under a normal operating system (i.e. perhaps not Plan 9, I am not
sure) the debug symbols are separate from the executable text so that
the OS will never read the debug symbol area while it is
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